DUBLIN — They call it the Irish Bastille. But unlike the legendary French prison, Kilmainham Gaol still looks pretty much the way it did when it opened for business in 1796. To get the full effect of ...

If, as a boy, I’d had any notion that there was such a thing as a “travel writer”, I would have dreamed of being one. But from the limited perspective of a small town in Alabama, I hardly knew that a ...

The autograph book is one of the most requested items at Kilmainham Jail in Dublin. A collection of autograph books owned by prisoners during the 1916 Easter Rising was published online in 2017. The ...

HOW it will look: This photomontage shows how the controversial development proposed for the Nestle Rowntree site opposite historic Kilmainham Jail will look upon completion. The proposed development ...

THE story of the Kilmainham Gaol escape is being retold to mark the centenary of one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the prison. Tomorrow marks 100 years since the escape of IRA ...

Sinead Deignan I AM charmed by this development on the tranquil banks of the Camac River, just off South Circular Road. Kilmainham Bank, on Emmet Road is right in the heartland of history, with a ...

The walls of Dublin's Kilmainham Jail hold two centuries of Irish history, but the place is most strongly associated with the Easter Rising of 1916, which laid the seeds for Ireland's eventual break ...

Kilmainham Gaol and courthouse reverberate with a presence from past events and lives. While the gaol is inextricably linked in the public mind with the 1916 Rising, its old courtroom had a whole ...

SINGER Rod Stewart has told of how he was left "moved" by a visit to the church where Irish freedom fighter Grace Gifford was married before her husband was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter ...

Kilmainham Gaol's Collections Curator Brian Crowley is hosting the free tours as part of this month's Pride events. Kilmainham Gaol is hosting free tours that explore the prison's LGBT history as part ...

TO COMMEMORATE the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising, Kilmainham Gaol, which had been in a state of ruin for years, was put into order and was opened as a sort of national shrine. In November, ...